ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2010) — Childhood cancer survivors who had brain or other central nervous system cancers, or leukemia, achieve lower-than-expected educational success compared with the general public, according to an article published online January 27 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
This study was undertaken because previous studies on educational attainment among childhood cancer survivors were small, had contradictory findings, or were not population-based....
ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Oklahoma City Treating Pediatric Patients
OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Children with cancer are now being accepted for treatment at the ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Oklahoma, where a wide range of tumors are treated with proton therapy, an alternative to X-ray radiation that spares healthy tissue and results in far fewer short- and long-term treatment side effects.
Scientists have discovered oncogenes capable of driving growth of normal human brain stem cells in a highly malignant pediatric brain tumor. The research, published by Cell Press in the December issue of the journal Cancer Cell, has significant implications for clinical management of aggressive pediatric brain tumors that are notorious...
ScienceDaily (Dec. 3, 2009) — Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have identified a new factor that is necessary for the development of many forms of medulloblastoma, the most common type of malignant childhood brain cancer.
HHMI investigator Huda Y. Zoghbi and colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine prevented medulloblastoma from developing in mice by shutting down production of the protein Atoh1 in susceptible brain cells. The team's findings, reported in the December...
Survivors of childhood central nervous system malignancies had a higher risk for neurocognitive impairment that was associated with lower socioeconomic achievements in adulthood, according to recently published data.
As part of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study being conducted at nine major medical centers, researchers assessed neurocognitive functioning in 785 adult survivors of childhood CNS malignancies and compared them...
